Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-14

lagos, and cities, and realms. Now" saws
Satan, "l'll make bargain. just jump on.
know IL Is great way from the top of the
Temple to the valley, but If you are divine
you can NY. Jump OF. IL won't hurt you.
Angels will cateh you. Your Father will hol d
you. Besides, I'll make you large presen IT
II Won will III give you AsIa Minor. IN give
you India. Pll give you China, I'll give you
EthloDia, I'll give You Italy, Ill give you
Spain, III give yoa Germany, IN give you
Britain, pIl give you all the world" What q
humiliation IL must have been.
Go morrow morning and get in an alter
cation with some wretch crawling up from
q gin. cellar in the Fourth ward. New York.
mo-" you say. II would not bemean myself
by getting in such 8 contest" Then think of
what the King of Heaven and earth endured
when he came down and fought that great
wretch OF hell. and fought him IN the wilder
ness and on the top of the Temple. But l
bleas God that In that triumph over tempta-
ton Christ gives us the assurance that we
also shall triumph. Having Himself been
tempted, lie is able to succor all those who
are tempted.
In violent storm at sea the mate told a
boy-for the rigging had become entangled in
the mast-to go up and right it. A gentle
man standing on the deck said: "Don't send
that boy up; he Will be dashed to DEATH" The
mate said: 81 know what am about" The
boy raised his hat in recognition of the order,
anu then rose, hand over hand, and went TO
work; and as he swung in the storm the pas
sengers wrung their hands and expected TO
see him fall. The work done, ne came down
in safety, and Christian man SAID to him
why did you go down in the forecastle be-
fore YOU went upP' "Ah ;" said the boy, 81
went down to pray. My mother always
taught me before undertook anything great
to pray" "What IL that you have in your
yestr said the man, "oh, that is the New
carry it with me If really did go over
board" How well that boy was protected
care not how great the height or how vast
the depth, with Christ within us, and Christ
hAnnALh and ChFiat abnVa and l.hrist
all around US, nothing shall befall us in the
way of harm. Christ himself, having been In
the tempest, will deliver all those who put
their trust in Him, Blessed be His glorious
name forever.
The third installment paid for our redemp-
tion was the Saviour's sham trial. I call
it a sham trial--there has yer been anything
50 indecent or unfair IN the Tombs Court OF
New York as was witnessed at the trlal OF
Christ. Why, they hustled Him into the
court room at O'Clock In the morning. They
gave Him no time for counsel. They gave
Him no opportunity for subp9naing wit
nesses. The ruflians who were wandering
around through the midnight, of course they
saw the arrest and went into the court room.
But jesus friends were sober men, were re-
spectacle men, and at that hour, O'Clock in
the morning. of course they were at home
asleep. Consequently Christ entered the court
room with the rutfians.
oh, look at Him! No one to speak word
for Him. lift. the lantern until j can look
into His face, and rs my heart beats in SYM
pathy for this, the best friend the world ever
had, Himself now utterly friendless an Off
Ger of the court room comes up and smites
Him in the mouth, and | see the blood steal
ing from gum and lip. Oh,lt was farce of a
trial, lasting only perhaps an hour, ana then
the Judge rises for the sentence! 1t is against
the law to give sentence unless there has
been an adjournment of the court between
condemnation and sentence; but what cares
this judge for the law? "The man has no
friends-let him die" says the judge, and the
that's what we want-His blood. Hand hm
out here to us. Away with
Him! away with Him" Oh, bless
God that amid all the injustice that may be
Inflicted upon us in this world we have
divine sympaJhizer. The world cannot lie
about you nor abuse you as much as they did
Christ, and Jesus stands to-day in every
court room. in every home, in every store,
and says: Courage! By all my hours OF
maltreatment and abuse, will protect those
who are trampl on" And when Christ for
gets that two O'Clock morning scene, and the
stroke of the rufiian on the mouth, and the
howlnR of the unwashed crowd, then he will
forget you ana me in the injustices of life
that may be inflicted upon US.
Some OF you want deliverance from your
troubles, God knows you have enough OF them.
Physical troubles; domestic troubles; spirit
ual troubles; financial troubles. You have
been gathering them up, some perhaps for
nve, or six. or seven years, and you have
divided them into two classes: Those you can
talk about and those you cannot talk about;
and as those griefspare the most grinding and
depressing which you cannot mention, YOU
OF. while you get no coincidence for the things
that you cannot. In your school days you
learned how to bound the States and could
tell what rivers and lakes and mountains ran
through them. II you were asked to-day to
bound your worldly estate you would say it
is bounded on the north by trouble, and on
the south by trouble. and on the
west by trouble, while rivers
OF tears and lakes of Woe, and mountains of
disaster run through IL. What are you going
to do with your troublesS Why do you not go
to the theatre and have your mind absorbed
in some tragedy? "Oh, you say. 'everything
l have seen on the boards of the stage is tame
compared with the tragedy OF my own life!"
Well, then. why do you not go to your trunks
and closets and gather up all the mementoes
of your departed friends and put them out OF
sight. and take down their pictures from the
wall and put in the frame harvest scene or
some bright and gay spectacleY "Ah," you
say, ''lf should remove all these mementoes
of my departed friends that would not take
away the killing pictures that are hanging in
the gallery OF my own heart" VOL If tnat
does not help you why do you not plunge
into society and try to wash of In
worldly gayeties all these ass0ilments of the
soul "Oh." You say, II have tried that!
but how can hear other children laugh when
happy families when my own happy family is
broken upP Trouble, trouble!" But 10 you
gain anything by Droo0lDg over your mis-
fortunes, by sitting down In dark room, by
"a comparison OF the sweet past with the bitter
present NO; that makes things woree."
But have TO tell you to-day that the Christ
OF all sympathy presents himself.
Is there anybody IN this house that can get
along without sympathy? l do not think !
would live DAY without 1t. And yet there
are a great many VINO seem to get along
without any divine sympathy. Their fortune
In the counGlng-roOm. or In the store, or in
the insurance company, takes wings and flies
away. They button up penniless pocket.
They sit down in penury where once they had
aflluence, and yet there is no Jesus To stand
by them and say: ION, man, there are
treasures that never fail, in banks that never
break! / will take care of you. / own the.
want" They have no such divine
saviour TO say that to them.
do not know how they get along.
Death comes to The nursery. One voice less IN
the household. One less fountain OF joy and
laughter. Two hands less to be busy all day.
Two feet less to bound through the hall.
Shadow after shadow following through that
household, yet no Jesus TO stand there and
say: IL am the shepherd. That lamb is not
lost. took it OF the cold mountains. ALPS
we'll" Oh. can you tell me the mystery2 Can
you solve it2 Tell me how IT 10 that men and
women with aches. and pains, ana sorrows,
amente can get along without sympathizing
Christi / cannot understand 1t.
But / come here to say this morn
ing that il you really want divine
sympathy you can have IT.. There
are two or three passages OF Scripture
that throb with pity and Kindness and love.
"Cast thy burden on the Lord and He will